Purdue professor Marianne Boruch earns $100,000 award for poetry

Marianne Boruch honored for latest collection, 'The Book of Hours'

12:09 AM,
Mar. 5, 2013

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In a 2011 interview, Marianne Boruch was asked if she disliked anything about being a poet.

"Dislike - like I don't like butter beans? No," she replied. "But it is maddening how long this process takes, to figure out exactly, through countless revisions, what the poem is, where it's headed, what it's out to discover."

On Monday the poet and Purdue University professor received the Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Award for "The Book of Hours." The $100,000 prize is one of the profession's largest. ...